Should you medicate your child's mind?
Subtitle: a child psychiatrist makes sense of whether to give kids psychiatric medication
By: Elizabeth J. Roberts ; foreword by Drew Ross .
Publisher: Marlowe & Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781569243336
Subjects: Chemotherapy; Pediatric psychopharmacology; Child psychopathology; Behavior disorders in children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-259) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preliminary steps toward a professional diagnosis. Identifying your child's problem; title: Choosing a doctor for your child; title: Preparing for your first visit; title: Communicating with your child's doctor; title: How your child can become overmedicated; title: What is really troubling your child? Ad/hd: attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder; title: Odd : Oppositional Defiant Disorder and conduct disorder; title: Intermittent explosive disorder; title: Major depressive disorder; title: Bipolar disorder; title: Borderline personality disorder; title: Anxiety, social phobia, and panic disorder; title: Obsessive compulsive disorder; title: PtSD : Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; title: Schizophrenia; title: Asperger's disorder, autistic disorder, and mental retardation; title: Addictions to drugs and alcohol, and related disorders; title: Does your child really need medication? Antidepressants; title: Amphetamines; title: Antipsychotics; title: Mood stabilizers; title: Antihypertensives; title: Benzodiazepines; title: What else can you do to help your child?; title: The biological aspects to mental health; title: The psychological aspecys of mental health; title: The social aspects of mental health; title: Your role in raising mentally healthy kids; title: Parenting your willful child; title: Parenting your mentally ill child.